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ParentData with Emily Oster

ParentData with Emily Oster

Parenting is full of decisions ? starting the moment you learn you?re pregnant (sometimes before) and continuing indefinitely. For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the challenges of pregnancy and parenthood using data. She translates the latest scientific research into answers to the questions people have in their day-to-day lives. ParentData brings Emily together with other experts in areas of pregnancy and parenting to talk about some of the most complicated of these issues, from labor induction to food allergies to parenting through a divorce. Each conversation brings us closer to Emily?s mission: to create the most informed generation of parents by providing high-quality data that they can trust, whenever they need it.

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Doulas For All: How Senator Samra Brouk is changing birth in New York

Hiring a doula for your birth is, quite simply, a great idea. They?re non-clinical, cost-effective, and, as many mothers will attest, one of the most valuable parts of the experience - a value that is supported by data. The decision to have one should be pretty easy.

But actually crafting policy that captures that value is hard. Today on ParentData, we?re welcoming New York State Senator Samra Brouk, who is doing just that. Senator Brouk spearheaded an effort in New York to get doula services covered by Medicaid (which they now are, as of January 2024!). She explains her love of data, why doulas are important for maternal health - especially for Black women - and how to convince your older, perhaps non-doula-using colleagues that these issues matter.

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2024-04-11
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Bonus Episode: Dr. Becky and the Bad Therapy Conversation

American kids are struggling. And there's a lot of discussion around the reasons why. Is it smartphones? Is it social media? Is it a hyper fixation on feelings and therapy?

Today on ParentData, we?re releasing an episode of Good Inside with Dr. Becky, which Emily joined to discuss the latest book making the rounds in parenting circles, Abigail Shrier?s Bad Therapy. They delve into what parental authority is and what it isn't, how minimization of risk is not a life strategy for kids or adults, and how we can hold two things are true - we can be authorities who also come from a same-team approach with our kids.

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2024-04-09
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Parenting Trends Throughout History: We?ve always done it wrong ? and also right

As a parent, it?s extremely easy to get very focused on ?doing it right.? Which means, usually, doing what is considered ?right? in your particular time and cultural context. And sometimes, amid this pressure, we need a little perspective. Human history is long, and what is considered right has changed a lot.

Today on ParentData, we?re joined by author Jennifer Traig, who offers this perspective in spades. Her book ?Act Natural: A Cultural History of Misadventures in Parenting? is a history of parenting (or at least child-rearing) from ancient Rome to Puritan New England to Dr. Spock. We?ve done it a lot of ways and we?re all still here?so we must be doing something right.

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2024-03-28
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How to Create Community: Showing up for each other in a spiritual and secular world

We have all heard it takes a village to raise a child, but the reality is that many of us in the modern world, especially after the pandemic, are asking ?well, where?s my village?! Where?s my community of people who will show up for me in joy, and in grief, and help me introduce my kids to a world that?s bigger than themselves?

Today on ParentData, we welcome Rabbi Sharon Brous, whose book ?The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend our Broken Hearts? is about just this: finding community, finding your people, sometimes in faith, sometimes not, but who always show up for you, in both the good times and the bad.

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2024-03-14
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Birth Control After Kids: IUDs and vasectomies and tubal ligation, oh my!

In January, ParentData launched a new newsletter ? Hot Flash ? authored by Dr. Gillian Goddard. Hot Flash covers women?s health in the post-reproductive years. Think perimenopause and menopause, but also the late reproductive years, when you?re done having children but still, technically, might be able to do so. This week in Hot Flash, Gillian wrote about birth control at this stage ? how do you think about birth control when you know it?s forever?

Today on ParentData, Gillian joins us to walk through it all: from hormones to IUDs to surgeries. We talk about risks, benefits, trade-offs, and more.

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2024-02-29
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Household Division of Labor: Making the invisible work fair, if not equal

Invisible labor. It?s the work ? in our households especially ? that has to happen but that no one sees. It?s making the doctor?s appointment, ensuring the Valentine?s cards are purchased, remembering the milk. When we think about equity in household labor, we often find that there are already inequities in the visible work, and they can become insurmountable when the invisible work is added in.

Today on ParentData, Eve Rodsky joins with some solutions to this seemingly endless task list of problems. Her book, ?Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live),? and the movement it?s inspired, aims to rebalance workloads and encourage hard conversations, saving time, sanity, and even marriages along the way.

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2024-02-15
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Let?s Talk About Sex (After) Baby: Staying connected over the long term

Sex in long-term relationships, often after kids ? it?s something many people struggle with. When we did a big ParentData survey on your sex lives, a lot of you expressed unhappiness, stress, and pressure about how much sex was the ?right? amount, whether you were behind (or too far ahead!).

Today on ParentData, Emily Nagoski ? sex researcher and author of ?Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections? ?  is here to talk about taking that pressure off and redefining normal. We dive into the anxiety long-term couples face, how much sex everyone else is really having and how little that should matter for you and your partner, and how to evolve sexually? together.

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2024-02-01
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Staying Active, Starting Again: Exercise in pregnancy and postpartum

Exercise. Whether you?re an athlete or just depend on activity for a little dose of sanity, the pregnancy and postpartum periods can knock you sideways and make you feel estranged from your own body.

Today on ParentData, Megan Roche ? researcher, podcaster, and trail runner machine ? joins to discuss how to ease back into activity postpartum, why women?s health is understudied, and the value of carbohydrates. But the conversation goes beyond just sports. It?s also about how to return to the things you love to do after becoming a parent ? and feel a little more like yourself.

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2024-01-18
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Learning to Speak: Understanding the babbling black box

Through coos and cries, babbles and thbbbbts, babies are learning how to communicate from the earliest days of life. Language development is a magical opportunity to watch a child learn to engage with both you and the world. It also feels highly consequential, and for so many parents, it?s an incredibly stressful milestone. Watching your kid learn to talk is at once neat and frustrating and harrowing, all the more so when we realize that even the experts are often scratching their heads about how it all works.

Today on ParentData, Professor Michael Frank joins to explore the question of how children learn to speak. We talk about how language develops, the difference between receptive and expressive language, whether the pandemic had a significant impact, and which language is the hardest for kids to learn (spoiler alert: it?s Danish).

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2024-01-04
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Bonus: Telling the Truth About Marriage with Young Kids with Majka Burhardt

Earlier this year, Emily interviewed Majka Burhardt, a professional ice climber (seriously) and the author of ?More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood,? a raw, gripping book about the first years of parenthood. The book has recently been released as an audiobook, and in this bonus episode of ParentData, we?re thrilled to share some clips and re-run the interview. Majka tackles the uncertainties and fears of parenting with the same clear-eyed intensity and grace as she tackles mountains, and we hope she offers you some inspiration over the holidays.

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2023-12-25
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Parenting Through Grief: The impossible state of needing while giving

Grief can mean a lot of different things, from the loss of a loved one to the loss of a much-wanted pregnancy or marriage. It?s a heavy topic for the holidays, but this can also be a tough time when you?re dealing with loss.

Today on ParentData, writer Marisa Renee Lee gets into the heart of grief - which, from a data perspective, will affect approximately 100% of us - in her book "Grief Is Love." She discusses the need for parents to give, and to take, while weathering the waves of loss, and love.

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2023-12-21
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Choosing to Induce: How a randomized trial gave birth to a new era in obstetrics

Labor induction did not used to be the norm, but it increasingly is. A big reason for this change is something called the ARRIVE trial, which was designed to test whether routine induction would increase the risk of cesarean section - which, according to the results, it did not. In the wake of the trial, with that concern limited, many more doctors began recommending inductions as routine. (This refers to inductions that are not done by medical necessity; in many cases, it is necessary to induce, sometimes earlier than 39 weeks, to protect the health of the mother or baby.) But this doesn?t work for everyone: some people would rather not be induced, and some researchers have argued that the results from ARRIVE actually do not hold up in the real world.

Today on ParentData, Dr. Nathan Fox, an OB/GYN and co-author of Emily's upcoming book, The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications joins to discuss the ARRIVE trial, its clinical aftershocks, and the risks and benefits of letting nature take its course... or grabbing the steering wheel.

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2023-12-14
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Self-Care without Candles: Redefining wellness for parents

Self-care is everywhere. Bubble baths, massages, Instagram encouraging you to ?take time for yourself.? Get up early to have coffee and meditate, or take a forest walk. It can get to the point where self-care itself is yet another thing to check off the to-do list. Send emails. Make lunches. Clean Cheerios off floor. Take forest walk.

Today on ParentData, psychiatrist Dr. Pooja Lakshmin wants to push back on this performative, box-checking, crystals-and-baths form of self-care. Her book Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness is about what it actually takes to create wellness for ourselves. She talks about setting boundaries, tuning out the critics, and what true self-care can mean to each of us.

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2023-11-30
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How to Weigh the Risks of Social Media: A conversation with the Surgeon General

Earlier this year, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a new advisory about the effects of social media on the mental health of young people. These advisories are rare; we're used to seeing them on the sides of cigarette packs, where the negative health risks are indisputable. But social media and smartphones are more complicated. Today on ParentData, Dr. Murthy discusses the individual and systemic issues that led him to issue the advisory, and what he hopes, as both the nation's doctor and his kids? father, it will accomplish.

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2023-11-16
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Let?s Talk Puberty: Supporting our kids through the cringe

It?s time to make things awkward! Our journey through puberty is mercifully over, but we?ve still got to help our kids through it? and it may not be what we remember. Pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson and journalist Vanessa Kroll Bennett, authors of ?This is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained,? are here to dive headfirst into the surprising complexities of the endocrine system and how to stay close to our kids as they navigate today?s journey of adolescence.

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2023-11-02
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Parenting Through Divorce: The ultimate "no option C"

Even under the best of circumstances, the decision to end a marriage is often painful and always complicated - and even more so when kids are involved. Today on ParentData, writer and social worker Miranda Featherstone delves into the endless choices that accompany divorce, including making the initial decision, what it means to share your kids, what (and how much) to tell them, and other ways of thinking about the emotional and logistical aftershocks of making the right choice for yourself.

Please look into support from the Domestic Violence Support Hotline, if it applies to your situation.

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2023-10-19
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Introducing Allergens: What we've been getting precisely wrong

You probably remember peanut butter being everywhere when you were a kid: commercials, birthday parties, packed in your school lunchbox. Now peanuts are notable for their absence. What accounts for such a dramatic change in such a short amount of time? When did something so commonplace become so high-risk? Dr. Gideon Lack led the study that aimed to understand what happened. Today on ParentData, he explains the precipitous rise in peanut allergies over the last twenty years, our own unfortunate role in the rise of allergies, and the best ways to safely introduce allergens to your babies.

Read Dr. Lack?s randomized LEAP trial paper in the NEJM and the American Academy of Pediatrics? subsequent revised recommendations.

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2023-10-05
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High-Achieving Kids: The culture of never enough

Kids today face an unprecedented pressure to succeed, and it's pushing their mental health, and their families, to a breaking point. Today on ParentData, journalist Jennifer Breheny Wallace explains her research in her bestselling book, "Never Enough," how we got here, how these problems exist across both class and culture, and how we can combat this pressure by simply allowing our kids to matter as much as we already know they do.

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2023-09-21
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Official Trailer: Relaunching ParentData with Emily Oster

Becoming a parent is transformative. It is also terrifying. From conception and pregnancy onwards, you?re handed a new set of rules to follow with little explanation of the reasons or risks. For each decision, you want to do the ?right? thing ? but how, with conflicting advice from all directions? For the past decade, Emily Oster has been a guide through the biggest decisions and most challenging moments of pregnancy and parenthood by translating the latest scientific research. ParentData brings Emily and other experts together to debunk myths with data and navigate understudied areas of pregnancy and parenting, from the impact of social media on teens to navigating a complicated birth. Each conversation brings us closer to Emily?s mission: to create the most data-literate and informed generation of parents.

2023-09-14
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Expecting Better with Amy Schumer and Dr. Sara Reardon

I?m thrilled to share the audio from an event we held earlier this month to mark the 10-year anniversary of my first book, Expecting Better. It was hosted by Dr. Sara Readon (also known as The Vagina Whisperer) and we were joined by Amy Schumer, who helped put the book on the map. We also announced my new book, The Unexpected, which is coming out next spring!

ParentData relaunched in September 2023. Please enjoy this episode of the earlier version of the podcast from our archives. You can read transcripts and listen to all of our episodes at parentdata.org/podcast.

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2023-07-31
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Random Acts of Data with Dr. Anupam Jena

I spoke with Dr. Anupam Jena, known as Bapu, who hosts the podcast Freakonomics, MD, about his new book, Random Acts of Medicine, written jointly with Dr. Christopher Worsham. The book is out this week, and after you listen here, I highly recommend you pick it up.

ParentData relaunched in September 2023. Please enjoy this episode of the earlier version of the podcast from our archives. You can read transcripts and listen to all of our episodes at parentdata.org/podcast.

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2023-07-13
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Representation in Children?s Books with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a PhD student at Harvard in economics and public policy. Last year, she edited The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System, which features Black scholars and experts across economics, education, health, climate, criminal justice, and technology. This week, the book is out in paperback. In honor of this, she and I connected to chat about two of the chapters ? on education for Black girls and representation in children?s books.

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2023-06-12
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Ask Emily: All Your Questions About Running With Laura Green

When I do my weekly Q&A on Instagram (@profemilyoster), I get a lot of questions about running. Rather than interrupt the parenting content, we thought we?d collect those separately and put them in podcast form. And then I convinced Laura Green to ask the questions. If you do not follow Laura on Instagram, she puts out very funny running comedy; it is seriously the best. So: if you like running and parenting and discussions of the pelvic floor, please give this one a listen.

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2023-05-25
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How to Talk to Kids About Diets, Weight, and Food with Virginia Sole-Smith

I heard about Virginia Sole-Smith?s new book, Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, a few months ago and was so excited I immediately insisted on reading it and interviewing her. I?m a big fan of Virginia?s ? she is a journalist, an author, a podcaster, the writer of the excellent Substack newsletter Burnt Toast, and a mom. Her new book is about kids and weight and food, and I think it is an absolute must-read for all parents, especially for that moment when your child asks, ?Does this shirt make me look fat?? and you know there is a right thing to say, but in the moment you don?t know what it is and instead you melt into a floor puddle, never to be seen again.

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2023-04-24
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One Mother's Story of CMV in Pregnancy with Megan Nix

I speak with Megan Nix about her book Remedies for Sorrow, in which she recounts her journey with her daughter, Anna, who was born with congenital CMV. I would highly recommend the book, which is a combination of informative and deeply affecting.

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2023-04-17
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Race, Values-based Care, and Advocating for Yourself With Erica Chidi

I?m finishing out Black Maternal Health Week with an interview with Erica Chidi ? writer, entrepreneur, doula, and more. We talk about issues around Black maternal health, maternal health in general, and possible solutions.

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2023-04-14
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Parenting Through Challenges with Dr. Kelly Fradin

I?m excited to be joined today by Kelly Fradin, who wrote a new book called Advanced Parenting: Advice for Helping Kids Through Diagnoses, Differences, and Mental Health Challenges. I think this book is a must-read for any parent struggling with a complicated parenting problem. And as Kelly describes in this conversation, it?s also a book for every parent, since all of us face the challenges of advocating for our kids at one point or another. Her book is full of tools and resources that will help you manage the stress and navigate the business of care. And we?re going to cover some of her top tips in today?s conversation.

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2023-04-06
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Ask Emily: Your Personal Questions on Parenting

A bonus episode where Emily answers your personal questions about her journey with pregnancy and parenting ? thanks for sending in so many great questions on Instagram at @profemilyoster!

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2023-03-23
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Bonus: Book Talk with Hillary Frank (The Longest Shortest Time)

Today?s episode is an audio recording from one of my recent appearances in Montclair, New Jersey. It was an amazing night. I was so lucky to be joined by Hillary, who asked me some really thoughtful, smart questions about my book The Family Firm and my work on parenting. If you don?t know her, Hillary is the creator of the podcasts The Longest Shortest Time and Here Lies Me and author of the book Weird Parenting Wins.

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2023-03-15
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Telling the Truth About Marriage with Young Kids with Majka Burhardt

I am thrilled to feature an interview with Majka Burhardt, a professional ice climber (seriously) and the author of a new book called More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood, which is a really raw, gripping book about the first years of parenthood. It?s a book that I had a hard time putting down, even when it pulled me back into the uncertainties and fears of the beginning of parenting.

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2023-03-06
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Ask Emily: Your Personal Questions on Career

A bonus episode where Emily answers your personal questions about her career and more ? thanks for sending in so many great questions on Instagram at @profemilyoster! 

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2023-01-25
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Puberty, Postpartum, and Adaptation with Lauren Fleshman and Molly Huddle

I am thrilled to feature an interview with two professional women runners, Lauren Fleshman and Molly Huddle. Lauren has a new book out tomorrow called Good for a Girl, which is the impetus for our interview, and we?ll also talk about Molly?s book How She Did It from last spring. We talk about running, but I promise this is really a conversation about postpartum and post-puberty and finding a way to excel in male-dominated spaces and tons of other stuff. It?s a good listen even if you do not love to run.

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2023-01-09
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Ask Emily: Your Personal Questions on Marriage

A bonus episode where Emily answers your personal questions about her marriage and more ? thanks for sending in so many great questions on Instagram at @profemilyoster!

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2022-12-20
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Parenting in America with Jessica Grose and Yael Schonbrun

I am absolutely delighted to feature an interview with two amazing authors. Jessica Grose is the author of the just-released book ?Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood,? and Yael Schonbrun is a clinical psychologist and an assistant professor at Brown (my colleague!) and the author of the new book ?Work, Parent, Thrive.?

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2022-12-08
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How to Get Kids to Eat Their Lunches with Marnie Hanel

I talked to writer Marnie Hanel on her new, incredibly beautiful book about packing lunch boxes for your kids. When this book was first brought to my attention, I scoffed. I am nothing if not a hater of high-pressure lunch packing for children. However: I was convinced to consider the book by the fact that one of my children?s lunch boxes came back pretty much uneaten most days.

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2022-10-24
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Bonus: Ask a Pediatric Urologist

I did this interview on Instagram Live with Dr. Liza Aguiar. Liza is a pediatric urologist and when we asked you to submit questions for her, you sent us hundreds. In this conversation, we were able to dive deep into some of your questions about circumcisions, daytime potty training, nighttime potty training and bedwetting, and her real thoughts about Miralax.

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2022-09-28
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Bonus: The Power of Data & Its Limits

I'm releasing a talk that I gave at this year?s SXSW EDU conference. It is my hope that everything I write gives you more confidence talking about data and bringing it into your decision-making. This talk focuses on what we can (and cannot) learn from data and how to use it in our everyday lives. If you've ever wondered what it's like as one of my students at Brown University, here's a peek into that. 

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2022-09-21
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How to Talk to Kids About Sex with Miranda Featherstone

An interview with social worker and writer Miranda Featherstone on eggs, sperm, and sex ed. How can you discuss sex and where babies come from with your kids in a way that works for you and works for them?

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2022-09-12
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(Re)Creating School for Every Child with Michael Horn

We?re heading into back-to-school week in my neck of the woods, and in honor of that, we have an interview with education expert Michael Horn about his new book, From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)Creating School for Every Child.

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2022-08-29
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Understanding Gun Violence with Megan Ranney

After the horrifying events in Uvalde, many people wrote to ask about guns, about their child?s safety, about what they could do. I didn?t think I had the expertise to talk about this, but I thought immediately of Megan Ranney. She?s a practicing emergency physician, Academic Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, and a longtime researcher on sticky social problems, including violence, mental health, and technology. She?s also a friend, and I was very grateful she agreed to come talk with me about the data behind guns and gun violence. 

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2022-07-11
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All Kids Are Math Kids with Shalinee Sharma

Many of you have written in to ask me what we know about math learning. I?m delighted today to talk about this with Shalinee Sharma, co-founder of the nonprofit curriculum development company Zearn.

ParentData relaunched in September 2023. Please enjoy this episode of the earlier version of the podcast from our archives. You can read transcripts and listen to all of our episodes at parentdata.org/podcast.

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2022-06-15
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Pelvic Health with Emily Oster and the Vagina Whisperer

I interviewed Dr. Sara Reardon, The Vagina Whisperer, who talks on Instagram and online about all the pelvic floor issues that we just do not talk about enough. And I?ve got her here to discuss what?s normal and what?s not, and how important it is for everyone to be aware of their pelvic health (and get help when they need it).

ParentData relaunched in September 2023. Please enjoy this episode of the earlier version of the podcast from our archives. You can read transcripts and listen to all of our episodes at parentdata.org/podcast.

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2022-04-12
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